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        232.73  MEDICALLY RELEVANT TESTS -- IMMUNITY FROM
      LIABILITY.
         A person participating in good faith in the making of a report,
      photographs, or X rays, or in the performance of a medically relevant
      test pursuant to this chapter, or aiding and assisting in an
      assessment of a child abuse report pursuant to section 232.71B, shall
      have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, which might
      otherwise be incurred or imposed.  The person shall have the same
      immunity with respect to participation in good faith in any judicial
      proceeding resulting from the report or relating to the subject
      matter of the report.
         As used in this section and in sections 232.77 and 232.78,
      "medically relevant test" means a test that produces reliable
      results of exposure to cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, methamphetamine,
      or other illegal drugs, or combinations or derivatives of the illegal
      drugs, including a drug urine screen test.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 235A.7; C79, 81, § 232.73] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 88, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1264, § 28; 95 Acts, ch 182, § 8;
      96 Acts, ch 1092, § 3; 97 Acts, ch 35, §9, 25; 2001 Acts, ch 135, §11

         Referred to in § 232.2, 232.68, 232.71B, 232.77, 232.106

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Iowa > Title-6 > Subtitle-5 > Chapter-232 > 232-73

        232.73  MEDICALLY RELEVANT TESTS -- IMMUNITY FROM
      LIABILITY.
         A person participating in good faith in the making of a report,
      photographs, or X rays, or in the performance of a medically relevant
      test pursuant to this chapter, or aiding and assisting in an
      assessment of a child abuse report pursuant to section 232.71B, shall
      have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, which might
      otherwise be incurred or imposed.  The person shall have the same
      immunity with respect to participation in good faith in any judicial
      proceeding resulting from the report or relating to the subject
      matter of the report.
         As used in this section and in sections 232.77 and 232.78,
      "medically relevant test" means a test that produces reliable
      results of exposure to cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, methamphetamine,
      or other illegal drugs, or combinations or derivatives of the illegal
      drugs, including a drug urine screen test.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 235A.7; C79, 81, § 232.73] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 88, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1264, § 28; 95 Acts, ch 182, § 8;
      96 Acts, ch 1092, § 3; 97 Acts, ch 35, §9, 25; 2001 Acts, ch 135, §11

         Referred to in § 232.2, 232.68, 232.71B, 232.77, 232.106

State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Iowa > Title-6 > Subtitle-5 > Chapter-232 > 232-73

        232.73  MEDICALLY RELEVANT TESTS -- IMMUNITY FROM
      LIABILITY.
         A person participating in good faith in the making of a report,
      photographs, or X rays, or in the performance of a medically relevant
      test pursuant to this chapter, or aiding and assisting in an
      assessment of a child abuse report pursuant to section 232.71B, shall
      have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, which might
      otherwise be incurred or imposed.  The person shall have the same
      immunity with respect to participation in good faith in any judicial
      proceeding resulting from the report or relating to the subject
      matter of the report.
         As used in this section and in sections 232.77 and 232.78,
      "medically relevant test" means a test that produces reliable
      results of exposure to cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, methamphetamine,
      or other illegal drugs, or combinations or derivatives of the illegal
      drugs, including a drug urine screen test.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 235A.7; C79, 81, § 232.73] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 88, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1264, § 28; 95 Acts, ch 182, § 8;
      96 Acts, ch 1092, § 3; 97 Acts, ch 35, §9, 25; 2001 Acts, ch 135, §11

         Referred to in § 232.2, 232.68, 232.71B, 232.77, 232.106